Re: [Xen-users] FreeBSD DomU under Debian Etch Dom0 (Xen 3.0.3-1)

[Igor Chubin <igor@xxxxxxx>]

On Di, Dez 18, 2007 at 02:20:55 +0100, Julien Reveillet wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> I'm having troubles creating a FreeBSD DomU.



I suppose that you use PAE-enabled kernel in the domain 0.
As for the present it is impossible to run
PV FreeBSD domain on a PAE host.

>
> Here are the logs from Xen :
>
> [2007-12-17 10:29:26 xend.XendDomainInfo 25559] DEBUG (__init__:1072) 
> XendDomainInfo.create(['vm', ['name', 'FreeBSD'], ['memory', 256], 
> ['on_crash', 'preserve'], ['vcpus', 1], ['image', ['linux', ['kernel', 
> '/boot/xen3_domU'], ['args', 
> 'boot_verbose,boot_single,vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:/dev/md0a,kern.hz=100']]], 
> ['device', ['vbd', ['uname', 'file:/disk/freebsd_racine.img'], ['dev', 
> 'wd0a'], ['mode', 'w']]], ['device', ['vif']]])
> [2007-12-17 10:29:26 xend.XendDomainInfo 25559] DEBUG (__init__:1072) 
> parseConfig: config is ['vm', ['name', 'FreeBSD'], ['memory', 256], 
> ['on_crash', 'preserve'], ['vcpus', 1], ['image', ['linux', ['kernel', 
> '/boot/xen3_domU'], ['args', 
> 'boot_verbose,boot_single,vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:/dev/md0a,kern.hz=100']]], 
> ['device', ['vbd', ['uname', 'file:/disk/freebsd_racine.img'], ['dev', 
> 'wd0a'], ['mode', 'w']]], ['device', ['vif']]]
> [2007-12-17 10:29:26 xend.XendDomainInfo 25559] DEBUG (__init__:1072) 
> parseConfig: result is {'shadow_memory': None, 'uuid': None, 'on_crash': 
> 'preserve', 'on_reboot': None, 'localtime': None, 'image': ['linux', 
> ['kernel', '/boot/xen3_domU'], ['args', 
> 'boot_verbose,boot_single,vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:/dev/md0a,kern.hz=100']], 
> 'on_poweroff': None, 'bootloader_args': None, 'cpus': None, 'name': 
> 'FreeBSD', 'backend': [], 'vcpus': 1, 'cpu_weight': None, 'features': None, 
> 'vcpu_avail': None, 'memory': 256, 'device': [('vbd', ['vbd', ['uname', 
> 'file:/disk/freebsd_racine.img'], ['dev', 'wd0a'], ['mode', 'w']]), ('vif', 
> ['vif'])], 'bootloader': None, 'cpu': None, 'maxmem': None}
> [2007-12-17 10:29:26 xend.XendDomainInfo 25559] DEBUG (__init__:1072) 
> XendDomainInfo.construct: None
> [2007-12-17 10:29:26 xend.XendDomainInfo 25559] DEBUG (__init__:1072) 
> XendDomainInfo.initDomain: 35 1.0
> [2007-12-17 10:29:26 xend 25559] DEBUG (__init__:1072) Balloon: 1008 KiB 
> free; 0 to scrub; need 262144; retries: 20.
> [2007-12-17 10:29:26 xend 25559] DEBUG (__init__:1072) Balloon: setting 
> dom0 target to 1497 MiB.
> [2007-12-17 10:29:26 xend.XendDomainInfo 25559] DEBUG (__init__:1072) 
> Setting memory target of domain Domain-0 (0) to 1497 MiB.
> [2007-12-17 10:29:27 xend 25559] DEBUG (__init__:1072) Balloon: 263152 KiB 
> free; need 262144; done.
> [2007-12-17 10:29:27 xend 25559] INFO (__init__:1072) buildDomain os=linux 
> dom=35 vcpus=1
> [2007-12-17 10:29:27 xend 25559] DEBUG (__init__:1072) dom            = 35
> [2007-12-17 10:29:27 xend 25559] DEBUG (__init__:1072) image          = 
> /boot/xen3_domU
> [2007-12-17 10:29:27 xend 25559] DEBUG (__init__:1072) store_evtchn   = 1
> [2007-12-17 10:29:27 xend 25559] DEBUG (__init__:1072) console_evtchn = 2
> [2007-12-17 10:29:27 xend 25559] DEBUG (__init__:1072) cmdline        =  
> boot_verbose,boot_single,vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:/dev/md0a,kern.hz=100
> [2007-12-17 10:29:27 xend 25559] DEBUG (__init__:1072) ramdisk        =
> [2007-12-17 10:29:27 xend 25559] DEBUG (__init__:1072) vcpus          = 1
> [2007-12-17 10:29:27 xend 25559] DEBUG (__init__:1072) features       =
> [2007-12-17 10:29:27 xend.XendDomainInfo 25559] ERROR (__init__:1072) 
> Domain construction failed
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "/usr/lib/xen-3.0.3-1/lib/python/xen/xend/XendDomainInfo.py", line 
> 195, in create
>   vm.initDomain()
> File "/usr/lib/xen-3.0.3-1/lib/python/xen/xend/XendDomainInfo.py", line 
> 1363, in initDomain
>   raise VmError(str(exn))
> VmError: (22, 'Invalid argument')
>
>
>
> Here is my config file :
>
>
>
> kernel = "/boot/xen3_domU"
>
> # Optional ramdisk.
> #ramdisk = "/boot/initrd.gz"
>
> # The domain build function. Default is 'linux'.
> #builder='linux'
>
> # Initial memory allocation (in megabytes) for the new domain.
> memory = 256
>
> # A name for your domain. All domains must have different names.
> name = "FreeBSD"
>
> vif = [ '' ]
>
> #disk = [ 'phy:hda1,hda1,w' ]
> disk = [ 'file:/disk/freebsd_racine.img,wd0a,w' ]
>
> # Set root device.
> root = "/dev/sdb1 ro"
>
> #1 Sets runlevel 4.
> extra = "4"
>
> on_crash    = 'preserve'
> extra = "boot_verbose"
> extra += ",boot_single"
> extra += ",vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:/dev/md0a"
> #extra += ",vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:/dev/xbd769a"
> extra += ",kern.hz=100"
>
>
> Is there an other builder option for Bsd systems?
>
>
> I saw many post about people having the same problem but some told them to 
> use diffÃrent kernel for install or using different way like non pae 
> kernel.
>
> As my Xen kernel do a "kernel panic" with non pae (Quad Core with 4Gb) i 
> can't try FreeBSD on my system.
>
> What do you suggest to me?
>
> - Upgrade to Xen 3.1?
> - Compile FreeBSD kernel with Pae enabled? (i'm searching for it but 
> haven't found one yet, is it a working option for FreeBSD?)
> - Any other way?...
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Julien.
>
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